R is an open-source language for statistical programming. It is one of the fastest growing programming languages and in addition to its core functionality now incorporates more than 13’000 user-contributed packages. Apart from being free and open-source, R provides better tools than traditional statistical software programs for machine learning, text analysis, Bayesian modelling and working with social media.

In this workshop we will learn basic mathematical operations in R, data manipulation, plotting and some commonly used statistical models.

Prerequisites:

No prior experience with R is required.

The knowledge of quantitative methods at the level of MY452 (Applied Regression Analysis) is desirable.